Believe (Mixed Media Project)

My project "Believe" created for the August Challenge over at the Mixed Media Place blog.

Maybe it's the fact that I feel like summer is never going to end where I live, but the second and third photo on the top row of the Mixed Media Place mood board, at first glance, looked like ice on the foliage. I'm not exactly a person who likes being cold, and I live in a southern state, but I've had it with summer this year! It's the middle of September and we are still hitting the mid-90s! Which, according to the weather last night, is a full ten degrees above average! Too, too much I tell ya!

Beside the thought of ice, I really loved the colors in general on the mood board! It's filled with most of my favorites! But once I had blue + white + ICE!! on my mind, I had to go with it! Below the mood board you will find a process video, some more photos, and a full product list.

Process Video:

Close-up Photos:

Products

• AB Studio
• Chipboard Background 30x30 (centimeters) ID-4
• Creative Embellishments
• Holly and Berry Flourish
• Shimmerz
• Vibez
• Frost Bite
• Snow Way Man
• DecoArt
• Weathered Wood
• Crackle Medium
• Ranger
• Tim Holtz
• Distress Crackle Paint
• Clear Rock Candy
• Distress Glitter
• Clear Rock Candy
• Embossing Powder
• Blue
• Snowflake Tinsel
• Simon Says Stamp
• Embossing and Watermark Ink
• Clear
• Krylon
• Workable Fixatif
• Liquitex
• Gloss Gel
• Unknown
• All the artificial foliage. I bought it at JoAnn's ... last year.

Fairy Mirror

A little decorative mirror I put together for the July 2019 Mixed Media Place Challenge.

For this project I was inspired by the colors found on the July, Mixed Media Place, mood board, most specifically the yellows, reds, and seafoam green. Especially since the green on the ReneaBouquets Fairy "Belle" was a fantastic match!

Below the mood board you'll find a process video, some close up photos, and a product list.

Process Video:

Close-ups:

And, because she happened to come along, Lucy (Great Dane) is helping to demonstrate how well the mirror works!

Products:

• ReneaBouquets
• Beautiful Board
• Fairy Belle (Small)
• Mulberry Paper Roses
• Yellow & White Curly Roses
• Double Sided Print, Premium Paper Butterflies
• Salted Caramel
• Dusty Attic
• Chipboard Flourish (I don't know which one)
• 49 & Market
• Blossom Blends
• Aloe
• Prima
• Finnabair
• Wax Cire Cera
• Firebird
• Rust Effect Paste
• Cream
• Moss
• Cool Grey
• Flowers
• A Victorian Christmas
• Item #583507
• Ranger
• Tim Holtz
• Distress Paint
• Ground Espresso
• Black Soot
• Liquitex
• Matte Super Heavy Gel
• Daler Rowney
• White Gesso
• JudiKins
• Diamond Glaze
• Unknown/Unbranded
• Mirror (I bought it at Dollar Tree)
• Cabochons

World Tiger Day ATCs

Artist Trading Coins - "Unusual Holiday/Celebration" Theme - scrapbook.com June-July ATC Swap, hosted by Marci (you can find her here: Blog: A Scrap from Marci and here: scrapbook.com Gallery)!

Global/World/International Tiger Day - July 29th!

Process Video:

For the image of the tiger I used a free one I found at needpix.com (link below) and then played with editing it until I got something I liked. I can't really tell you the steps, because sometimes things just happen, and I'm not always sure how I did it! There was some selective color picking and changing though, I can tell you that much!

There isn't really anything overly complicated on these, just some coloring/watercoloring with some Scribble Sticks, fussy cutting, and gluing! OH! The tigers weren't fussy cut, I used the print & cut feature of Silhouette Studio with my Cameo 3.

*Original Tiger Image (listed as free) from needpix.com. Tiger Image Direct Link

Products:

• Hip Kit Club
• The Happy Life
• Sunset Blush
• American Crafts
• Dear Lizzy
• Lovely Day
• Color Me Pretty
• Heidi Swapp
• Pineapple Crush
• Palm Beach
• Crate Paper
• Maggie Holmes
• Chasing Dreams
• Hello Beautiful
• Ranger
• Dina Wakley Media
• Scribble Sticks
• Set #1
• Lemon
• Lime
• Magenta
• Tangerine
• Set #2
• Blushing
• Evergreen
• Cheddar
• Ocean
• Fuchsia
• Eggplant
• Tim Holtz
• Water Nib
• Prima
• Water Pens
• Silhouette
• Studio
• Cameo 3
• Premium Blade

Great-Grandma

My great grandmother, about 82 years ago!

The majority of this layout is made using products that came in the June 2019 Tres Jolie Kit Club Scrapbooking Kit (product list below), and was created for the June Sketch Challenge hosted by Kim & the Tres Jolie Kit Club!

The Tres Jolie Kit Club June Sketch

I just love 49 & Market, and those laser cut shapes made this layout go together much faster than fussy cutting flowers!!

Adding some foam under the photo gives it just a little lift from the layers underneath.

I set out with a goal to see if I could use an entire package of flowers on a layout! I think it's a first for me!

I just happened it have the perfect Say It In Crystals in my stash for this project!

Another big, flower milestone for me...using a mix of flat & 3D flowers. I don't know if I've ever really succeeded at it. It always makes me panic!

A bit of the lace from the Tres Jolie Kit & a ReneaBouquets Heart Paper Clip for some little touches.

Products:

• [From the] Tres Jolie June 2019 Scrapbooking Kit
• 49 & Market
• Bold & Beautiful Collection
• Dear John
• Edge of Reason
• Whispers
• Laser Cut Shapes
• Blossom Blends
• Bluebell
• Lace
• ReneaBouquets
• Beautiful Board Heart Paper Clips
• Art Anthology
• Keyholes 6x9 Stencil
• Shimmerz
• Creameez
• Lapis Dance
• Dazzlerz
• Foiled Again
• Prima
• Finnabair
• White Crackle Texture Paste
• Jamie Dougherty
• Bloom
• Spark 6x6 Stencil
• Frank Garcia
• Santorini
• Say It In Crystals
• idea-ology
• Tim Holtz
• Tiny Attacher
• Tonic
• Tim Holtz
• Paper Distresser
• JudiKins
• Diamond Glaze
• Art Glitter Glue
• Silly Winks Sticky Back Foam Sheet
• Liquitex Clear Gesso

Altered Notebook - June ReneaBouquet Swap

Altered Notebook - June ReneaBouquets Facebook Swap

The notebook is a 9"x6" notebook I found at Wal-Mart.

I've owned the Prima Wildflowers Pillar for a few years now, and have been waiting to use that big, orange hibiscus on just the right project! Apparently the "right project" does eventually come along! LOL

ReneaBouquets always seems to have just the right pieces for so many of my projects.

This flamingo is made with Amazing Cast Resin & a Wilton, silicon, candy mold!

Some more "waiting for the perfect project" items I had been hoarding. Studio Calico was the first crafting supply subscription I used! I love them, and in a perfect world I'd be a subscriber to ALL clubs I could find, but since I don't have Jeff Bezos' money, I try different clubs, one at a time!

And here is a process video if you'd like to see the high speed version of assembly!

**I made the cut file for the "replacement" cover using Silhouette Studio.

Products

• Notebook Cover
• ReneaBouquets
• Purple Spring Mix Mulberry Paper Flower Set
• Beautiful Board Small Twisted Chain Frame Set Laser Cut Chipboard Frames
• Webster's Pages
• Dream In Color
• Drifting
• Studio Calico
• {Yello!}
• the floral print transparancy
• Shimmerz
• AcriTonez
• Blue My Top
• Pinkadelic
• Ranger
• Tim Holtz
• Mini Blending Tool
• Distress Oxide
• Salty Ocean
• Picked Raspberry
• Dylusions
• Stamp & Stencil
• Quote Medley
• Stampers Anonymous
• Tim Holtz
• Bubble Stencil
• Prima
• 2" Silicone Brush
• Wildflowers Pillar Pack
• Mixed
• Finnabair
• 3D Gloss Gel
• American Crafts
• Thickers
• Pick-Me-Up
• Crate Paper
• Oasis Ephemera
• TCW
• Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste
• The Paper Studio
• Bright Lace Ribbon Scrap Pack
• Chickaniddy
• Mini Brads
• Spellbinders
• Tool 'n One
• Liquitex
• Matte Super Heavy Gel
• Daler Rowney
• White Gesso
• Krylon
• Workable Fixative
• Brea Reese
• Texture Pebbles
• Art Glitter Adhesive
• Best 
• 1" and 1/4" Ultra-Thin Permanent Double-Sided Tapes
• Sorrento Crafts
• 13 color stamen set
• Silhouette
• Cameo 3
• Unknown/Unbranded
• Stamen in largest Hibiscus
• Lace on inside of cover
• Chipboard

• Flamingo
• Wilton Candy/Fondant Mold
• Flamingo
• Prima
• Finnabair
• Metallique Paint
• White Pearl
• Wax Cire Cera
• Indian Pink
• Sweet Rose
• Americana
• Gloss Enamels
• Black
• Amazing Cast Resin
• Daler Rowney
• White Gesso

• Tags
• American Crafts
• Amy Tangerine
• On A Whim Collection Foil & Resist Tags
• Shimmerz
• Coloringz
• No Yolking
• Vibez
• Jeni B Bleu
• Ranger
• Dylusions
• Ink Spray
• Funky Fuchsia
• Squeezed Orange
• Tim Holtz
• Distress Ink
• Twisted Citron
• Picked Raspberry
• Dina Wakley Media
• Scribble Sticks
• Sets 1 (Magenta) & 2 (Fuchsia)

Art Daily Journal Cover

For the months of May and June, Tres Jolie Kit Club is going to be working on the Finnabair Art Daily Journal! Which is why the May Cards, Tags, & More kit contained the 58 Piece Journal Cover Set, plus Finnnabair's Victorian Bookmarks & Sentiment's Stickers!

I decided to at least make the cover look like I planned on being productive!! I mean, it is the last day of the month and I didn't actually get any of the "Daily" part done like I told myself I would "just as soon as I finished the cover."

Lots of mixed media products on here, and not all of the glue is dried or the Heavy Body Gel, but it was dry enough to take photos!

First I took all the elastics off the journal so I could coat it in black gesso, then I figured out what was going to be the decoration after browsing my stash...so after I glued all the base pieces down I gessoed (<---is that even a word?!?!) again!

I was going to just paint the cover with DWM's Olive, but I saw my dylusion's Chopped Pesto and decided to combine the two! They aren't mixed together, I just dipped half my brush in one color and the other half in the second color. As I layered and built up the paint I would alternate colors or use both together again.

After the paint dried I started working on my rust effect paste, starting with Brown and finishing with Rusty.

As for the metal flowers; I gave them a coating of gesso and let it dry, then I spritzed them with water, randomly sprinkled the Perfect Pearls & Magical Shaker's on them, spritzed them with water again, then heat dried. To help keep the coating in place I gave them a spray with acrylic sealer. (All this was done on my work surface, before attaching them to the cover!!)

To finish I placed all the flowers to my liking, and gave a light coating of Metallique Wax to the edges of the cover!

OH! The Tim Holtz Adornment on the spine (that I used to cover the original hole since I relocated the closure!) ... it was gessoed, painted with Metallique Fresh Orange Acrylic Paint, then coated with the Firebird Wax!

Products

• [From the] Tres Jolie May 2019 Cards, Tags, & More Kit
• Prima
• Finnabair
• Art Daily Chipboard Album Cover (58 Pieces - Item # 964771)
• ReneaBouquets
• Glass Microbeads
• Rust
• Mulberry Papers Roses & Leaves
• Mini Orange
• Lindy's
• Magical Shaker
• Grab A Guy Gold
• Bratwurst Brown
• Ranger
• Perfect Pearls
• Green Patina
• Forever Green
• Dina Wakely Media
• Acrylic Paint
• Olive
• Dylusions
• Acrylic Paint
• Chopped Pesto
• Prima
• Resin Icons
• Item # 573300 (Upper Right Clock)
• Item # 573348 (Topmost Gear)
• Finnabair
• Heavy Body Gel
• Acrylic Paint
• Metallique Fresh Orange
• Wax Cire Cera
• Firebird
• Rust Effect Paste
• Dark Brown
• Green
• Rusty
• Mechanica Mould
• Vintage Trinkets
• Item # 960278 (Bottom Right Clock)
• idea-ology
• Tim Holtz
• Curio Knobs
• Timepieces
• Adornments
• Foundry
• We R Memory Keepers
• Crop-A-Dile
• Crop-A-Dile II
• Mod Podge
• Gloss Clear Acrylic Sealer
• Liquitex
• Black Gesso
• Clear Gesso
• Unknown/Unbranded
• Metal Flowers

Imagine (4"x12" Canvas)

"Imagine" created for the Mixed Media Place April (2019) Challenge!

I LOVED the colors of the mood board this month, and I'm not even the biggest fan of pinks! Besides the colors, the mushroom put me in a fantasy mindset, when for me equals fairies!!

I don't have a lot of rhyme or reason with this canvas, and originally I had hoped to recreate the mushroom...somehow...but as it so often happens, the project took on a life of it's own! The pink tree is actually a photo I took, ran through Photoshop, printed on regular paper, and transferred! It didn't transfer quite how I had planned, so I had to get "creative" with the Shimmerz paste! 😂

The fairy was black chipboard, but I used some white gesso before painting it with the Pink-Blue Opal Magic and adding a T-H-I-N coat of the Peacock Metallique Wax!

Products

• ReneaBouquets
• Glass Beautiful Beads - Teal
• Mulberry Paper 
• Leaves
• Dark Pink Roses & Leaves
• Creative Embellishments
• Mega Pack Fairies In Black
• Shimmerz
• Dazzlerz
• Foiled Again
• Studio 71
• 4 in x 12 in Canvas
• Prima
• Sunrise Sunset Collection
• Item # 565190 (Silver Flowers)
• Finnabair
• Heavy Body Gel
• Metallique Wax
• Peacock
• Metallique Paint
• White Pearl
• Opal Magic Paint
• Aqua-Rose
• Pink-Blue
• Ranger
• Big Emboss It
• Embossing Powder
• White
• Ruby Rock It
• Fynmark
• Wood Veneers
• JudiKins
• Diamond Glaze

Rattan Heart

Rattan Heart created for the Creative Embellishments February Challenge

Over on the Creative Embellishments Blog the February Challenge was a color challenge, and this heart is what I came up with!

To color the rattan heart I used three different sprays, Shimmerz "Pretty In Pink" and "Sweetheart," and I watered down the "Rose-Gold" Prima paint to make the third spray. After they were dry I had to add some lace...because Creative Embellishments had it as a twist, and I'm not one to "skip" on twists!

It was after I had the lace on I decided to add make the inner and outer edges a bit darker with the "Rose Gold" Icing Paste!

After that is was a matter of arranging the flowers and working in the chipboard from Creative Embellishments!

For the Corner Flourish 4 (which has been cut apart) I put on a coat of white gesso, sprayed it with Shimmerz "Ruby"...twice, then I put on a layer of "Aged Mahogany" Distress Oxide and spritzed it with water! The berries were just coated in a layer of "Rustic Brown" paint, no gesso, because I wanted the paint to soak in some to "dull" it a little.

Products:

• Tres Jolie February Mixed Media Kit
• Scrapberry's – Rattan Heart
• Creative Embellishments Corner Flourish 4
• ReneaBouquets
• Vintage Burgundy Roses & Gardenias Flower Set
• Creative Embellishments
• Berries
• Prima
• Flowers (Item #594718)
• Finnabair
• Icing Paste
• Rose Gold
• Opal Magic Acrylic Paint
• Rose-Gold
• Metallique Acrylic Paint
• Rustic Brown
• Heavy Body Gel
• Shimmerz
• Coloringz
• Pretty In Pink
• Spritz
• Ruby
• Vibez
• Sweetheart
• Ranger
• Tim Holtz
• Distress Oxide
• Aged Mahogany
• Unknown
• Lace